Guy Pearce stars in Lee Tamahori’s story about a lay preacher in New Zealand stuck between two warring Maori tribes.
It’s 1830 and lay preacher Thomas Munro is about to join a cluster of British settlers who have made a precarious home for themselves on a stretch of land on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island. It looks like a place fit only for the brave, desperate or crazily optimistic, and Munro is a bit of all three.He’s out to relieve his guilt over those he killed as a soldier in the British army by devoting the rest of his life to good works.
It’s up to Jacqueline McKenzie, cast as another dissident spirit, to help. Charlotte Hegarty is a healer who’s been transported to the colonies on a charge of petty theft, and although McKenzie seems a little too classy for the role of a convict she brings a credible Scottish accent to the job, along with a gravitas to match Munro’s. They make an attractive, if earnest, pair., a novel based on the diaries of two young English sailors on a trading vessel, to put the other chapters in context.
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